Word: predicting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Porter have since used every opportunity to preach that message. They acknowledge that their appearances at academic conferences and on radio and television talk shows haven't as yet turned admissions offices upside down; but like other test reformers, they point to the five-year battle over disclosure and predict ultimate success...
Administrators said yesterday that because they cannot predict how many students will attend a given class, they often parcel out classroom space badly and occasionally hire far too many or too few teaching fellows for classes whose enrollment changes markedly form one year to the next...
Were it a national election, the pollsters would know by now; their weekend results, their momentum charts, would be able to predict, within a point or two, how it was going to break. But no-one does any polling in Cambridge, so everyone worries...
While the candidates nervously attempt to predict the election's final outcome, city election commissioners and staff seal the politicians' fate, giving periodic official updates...
...Independent majority on the council could spell the end to strong city ordinances supporting rent control, which was adopted 10 years ago to protect low and moderate income families from skyrocketing rents. While a total rent decontrol is unlikely because of the enormous upheaval it would cause, CCA members predict that a significant softening of current city codes would slowly turn many traditional blue-collar neighborhoods into elite bedroom communities for Boston's young paraprofessionals...